Is There a Style of Music Like Pop Music?

Quite a lot of people say that pop music and popular music are one and the same. Then the definition can be given this:

Pop music is music that can be mass.

A musical style is a method of representation, delivery a musical work (and an action associated with it, like a concert, video clip, CD cover), corresponding to a certain idea.

The style demonstrates a commitment to certain ideological attitudes, the image of feeling, moral and emotional attitude. Simply put, there is an idea - there is a style.



If it's just a couple of other chords or synths - this is not a different style, but just a couple of other chords. If Michael Jackson and Britney Spears have a common basic idea, then they work in the same style.

Styles are grouped into genres (for example: classical, jazz, pop, rock (including blues), folk (including country) or ethnic (including new age), reggae and electronics.

Styles are divided into sub-sheets, differing in some nuances, but not contradicting the idea of the main style. And the substrates can be combined into groups - directions, like Eurodance.

I believe that there is a genre of "pop music", and this is today the largest musical genre. Joe Dassin and Ricchi e Poveri, Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake - what are these, if not projects originally conceived and performed in pop style?

Pop is the same genre as rock or folk.

The development of pop music is historically conditioned and associated with the development replication technologies. In general, music and the corresponding technical means have a common history of formation and development, largely driven by the mechanism of mutual stimulation.

Microphones and electric pickups were invented in the 1920s. Stereo sound - in 1933. Stereo plates - in 1958.

Before World War II, phonographs were a relative rarity, a sign of high well-being. Classical music (symphonies, operas and arias - all this is primarily for the bourgeoisie and aristocracy class) romances, waltzes, tango, swing (foxtrots, beguins, charlestones), jazz (dixieland, ragtime, etc.) are recorded on gramophone records of past years. etc.), marches, folk melodies (from Russian folk songs to country, depending on the country).

For the modern listener, spoiled by cheap and low-quality pop products, they largely sound pompous, exaggeratedly passionate, serious, that is, hard. But at the time it was perceived as light unobtrusive music.

The euphoria of victory reinforced the trend of producing music, facilitated for perception, of household music. And the release of sound recording forms to a new, completely different technical level (the
ubiquitous distribution of electric players, the development of a network of recording studios and radio stations, as well as the invention of electric guitars, multi-channel recording systems, reverse) provided an
unprecedented distribution of replicated sound copies.

Thus, besides jazz (which went from pop music to intellectual), light music with Euro-vocals on it spread throughout the market (“Euro” - in mood, sound, intonation, compared to ethnic or operatic), with a
couplet-chorus structure. A love song for something, simple to understand, well suited as background music.

These are the characteristics of the pop genre. A style of "pop music" implies the use of modern (for a given era, decade) musical instruments and means of recording in the framework of the genre of "pop."

Originally it was just a chanson, a simple love song. I suppose that it was with the advent of rock and roll as a cultural opposition in 1955 that pop finally formed a musical style. Because rock and roll gained immense
popularity, it was popular music, but it didn’t belong to the pop genre, so there was a separation of concepts.

(A.Troitsky. I will introduce you to the world ... pop.)